• JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Active communities for niche topics, like His Dark Materials, or Would You Rather, and the poll feature, which I used extensively. Yes, I know you can link to external platforms, but integrating it into the post was much nicer.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Video game specific communities. Like any random game that is even semi-popular has an active sub on Reddit. Even the most popular games in the entire world rn don’t have much activity, if they even have communities, on Lemmy.

        • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I feel like there’s probably about 50 different directions that one could take that idea, and the story very clearly paints that act as a Bad Thing™ to have done.

          But to play devil’s advocate (just because I have also been missing this type of discussion), one could argue that experiencing love would compromise Miquella’s plans for his planned age of compassion. An age of compassion would be one which treats everyone equally, to try to universally end worldly suffering.

          Love, on the other hand, is what allows one to play favorites, and is also something that cannot really be controlled. Having a stronger attachment towards some people over others because of love would result in discontent, and sabotage the type of egalitarian compassion Miquella wanted to create.

          Marika’s reign became rocky because there were conflicts between those she favored and those she shunned. She absolutely played favorites, and did not love everyone equally. Her solution to break the cycle of suffering was to simply remove death from the world entirely, but as we saw, that just ended up making its own whole host of problems.

          So I think Miquella was trying to avoid making that same mistake of favoritism we saw under Marika, but ended up making another mistake which could have been just as potentially consequential as his mother’s decision to shatter the rune of death. A dispassionate “compassion” wouldn’t really be compassion at all.

      • LostXOR@fedia.io
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        2 months ago

        I like the comments here a lot more. Reddit’s comment ranking algorithm mostly prioritized highly upvoted comments, so the top comments on every thread would be the earliest ones, and anything much later would be lost in the sea. Here new comments get ranked higher than older ones even if they have fewer upvotes, which gives them a lot more visibility.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          they also allows too mmuch astroturfing that seems to digress from the discussion.

      • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I just had my first thread that I came across today, after nearly 2 years here, that was collaboratively funny, creative, diverse and made me remember what lots of talent in a thread can do. Not just anti-establishment/political circle jerking, or a few tech categories that get enough visibility to get participation.

        It was a /mildlyinteresting thread about giraffes being more likely to be struck by lightning. It immediately made me feel like I was finallly home again after 2 years and looking forward to more and more growth in Lemmy and the fediverse.

  • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The only communities that I still regularly browse on Reddit are the regional communities for the place I live currently and places I’ve lived previously. Those seem to have little to no activity around here. I no longer participate in them on Reddit, only lurk.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      i used to but i heard alot of cities or states got astroturfed by right wingers, in my city, theres all these good-two-shoes people.

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    A less specific demographic, which is a little ironic when referring to reddit. But lemmy is even more a subset of a subset of a subset of people than reddit is, and it gets a bit old at times.

    Politics everywhere, and most of it is just circlejerking over something trump is doing and everyone agreeing how terrible he / his supporters / his handlers / the broligarchs are. There isnt much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don’t mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I dont need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things. And I’m also not an american.

    Then there is an annoying flood of trans content, which is great that it has its place here, but for the most part doesn’t interest me beyond a general sentiment of support for people to live their life how they wish. I want more diversity in my feed.

    Not in necessarily in opinions but in topics

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There isnt much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don’t mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I dont need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things.

      Yes. There’s little or no novelty here. I’m not surprised by something new or interesting. I get a lot of nostalgia hits because we’ve all experienced similar things.

  • Lifecoach5000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I still browse and almost caught myself commenting recently. I quickly backspaced and exited out and came over here where I feel safe posting comments and interacting.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      its too easy to gett banned there now, even a simple comment removal will trigger a shadown ban in many cases, plus a VPN would result in a ban eventually.